Video Project Rough Draft Revised

For the Unit four video project I decided what better way to incorporate my blog idea into a video than by interviewing someone who has recently seen a drastic change in their fandom. I interviewed one of my friends named Griffin Davis who very recently has begun playing fantasy football. This was his first season participating and he joined our league which has been rather intense in terms of fantasy football, the two years prior. I really enjoyed the one on one interview format that we see so often because it really mimicked some of the popular sports shows that we see on television. My design process was relatively simple, the hardest part was deciding what to base my video on. I went in depth to research and find questions that would generate a significant response from my subject, I did a majority of my research at NFL.com and ESPN.com. I began by drafting questions that I knew would collectively make an outline for a story I wanted to tell. Then drew up my storyboard and placed the questions strategically to develop as the video went on. I then sat down with Davis and conducted the interview, trying to keep each question in a single film strand. He was very receptive to the questions and answered them well. I then went through and decided to incorporate the little portion about his agreement with his future roommates to add another angle to my story. I went through and rearranged my storyboard and added the final segment. I then got to editing and simply placed the clips in the order I wanted them in. By strategically filming it ended up being a lot less work when I reached the editing portion of this project. I then added a final title to thank Davis and put my name on the project and summed it up with some transitions between the clips and a dip to black at the end of the final clip. I really liked being able to move the video and audio separately because it allowed me to cut out some words while still maintaining the integrity of the original video clips I recorded. My biggest problem was getting the clips to export from my filming device and render properly in Adobe Premiere. I was able to eventually get them to transfer without losing resolution through a wired connection. I think that the project ended up turning out pretty well for an interview. I was unable to add all of the bells and whistles we have been provided with based on the medium of video I chose to present my story in.